[Looking to buy VW 12.5 for Mac]

The licenses are cross platform, Cornelia

[Windows system for BIM]

My Mac client has asked me to spec a PC build alternative for VW Architect, using BIM. They mainly do high end residential. Can anyone give me a rough idea of the base components?

 

I am assuming the main 2 factors are:

CPU - i7.latest?

4Gb graphics card - no clue which one to use - any ideas?

 

Any other things that will make a difference, whilst assuming decent RAM, Evo SSD etc

 

Thanks

[VW 12.5.3 Mac OS 10.6 cannot print to Canon CLC-4040]

My network user cannot print to a Canon CLC-4040 using the latest driver - has anyone come across this issue?

[IP resources file not found]

My client is on VW 12.5.3 using a network account and a network dongle. When trying to add a revision cloud to a drawing she gets the error as above. I have tried replacing the file into plug-ins from elsewhere, and repaired permissions, but to no avail. There was a link to another thread on this but it has been deleted it seems.

Any clues out there? Many thanks!

[VectorWorks 12.5 and Snow Leopard]

My experiences on 12.5.3 Mac and 10.6.3 in a 22-seat network-dongle environment:

On local or mobile Mac users (ie home folder synced back to Leopard Server) few if any new issues

HOWEVER:

For network logins there are real issues:

Exporting DXF/DWG fails unless you select a LOCAL destination and not the job folder on the server

Printing often crashes VW

Occasional random file corruption, and odd issues like a SnoLep user only being able to open a file once it has been opened and closed by a 10.5 user

I will add more once they rear their ugly little heads!!

The site is 100% Mac apart from the Firewall (KWF) and the accountant's WinXP box.

[client's VW files becoming irretrievably DAMAGED]

My Architect client has 20-odd seats of VW fundamentals 11 & 12. They have just reported that 2 or 3 users files have become unreadable, giving error message of "file is damaged,will open as much info as possible" Nothing opens and when I tested it on my VW12.0.1 it crashes the app. They report identical experiences. Please help!!!